The Sleeping Dragon
core novel 1983 Guardians of the Flame
Record
| First published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.99 (5,612 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451125743 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Sleeping Dragon, the first novel in the Guardians of the Flame series, follows a group of American college students who, while playing a fantasy role-playing game, are magically transported by their gamemaster into the actual world their game was modeled on. Cast in the roles of the characters they had created, the students find themselves in genuine danger in a harsh fantasy land where the game's rules no longer protect them, and they must draw on their assigned skills and each other to survive. The novel follows their early struggles to build a community for themselves in this world and their growing opposition to the region's entrenched slave trade, as choices made for a game now carry permanent, real consequences.
Where it sits
- Universe: Guardians of the Flame
- Series: Guardians of the Flame core; position 1 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Joel Rosenberg
Notes
- From the series record (Guardians of the Flame): Ten-book series about college students transported into a role-playing-style fantasy world.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Guardians of the Flame: position 1 of 10: next The Sword and the Chain (1984)
Sources
← Guardians of the Flame dossier · All universes
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